Mike
Buckle up for a trip down memory lane that might give you a little PTSD (Playground Traumatic Stress Disorder)! These traumatic but nostalgic images from the 60s, 70s, and 80s prove that childhood back then wasn’t just fun—it was a survival gauntlet.
From metal playground death traps to nostalgic toys that probably shouldn’t have existed, kids of this era were tough as nails. So, if you grew up dodging questionable safety standards and still made it out alive, these throwback pictures will hit you right in the nostalgia… and maybe the scar tissue!
1. And it would mess you up.
2. This thing would burn you so bad it’d leave a mark.
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4. Being thrown from this with such force and coming back for more. How did any of us survive?
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6. Stepping on these were worse than Legos.
7. This would mess you up too though.
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9. Hurts to even look at these.
10. We all learned an important lesson about curiosity from this little guy.
11. The knockers of pain.
12. The leg breaking machine.
13. This would open your foot right up.
14. The horrors.
15. Everyone broke a bone in this. Obviously.
16. Yet another thing we would leave everywhere and destroy our feet.
17. Suffocating in these.
18. Pain. So much pain.
19. The most pain.
20. These were such a bad idea.
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23. Jumping this but not quite clearing it.
24. Sitting on this with shorts on.
25. When your hand would freeze to these.
26. A specific pain tool.
27. Again, bad idea. Like, why?
28. How we used to get vaccinated.
29. The most painful whip on the market.
30. Whoever invented this hated children.
